Sweden arrests suspected Russian spy in Stockholm

February 28, 2019 | Brainwave Science

SITUATION

Swedish Security Police (SAPO) arrested a suspected Russian spy in Stockholm who is believed to have engaged in illegal intelligence activity since at least 2017. This arrest move is expected to worsen growing tension between the countries.

According to authority, the man was arrested at a meeting with a Russian diplomat in central Stockholm restaurant by agents of the SAPO and local law enforcement agencies. Police arrested both suspects but the second person (Russian diplomat) detained in the operation was released after claiming diplomatic immunity. SAPO released a statement declaring they had been working on the case for “a substantial period of time” and had carried out “intensive intelligence and investigation work”.

Last year, The National Security agency notified the Swedish government that “high threat posed by foreign spies is imminent”. The security threats to Sweden from Foreign countries especially Russia were the most extensive for several years. Swedish National Security are concerned about growing foreign political interference.

Daniel Stenling, head of SAPO’s counter espionage unit, says the person “works in the Swedish high-tech industry” and has intelligence that the agency knows greatly interests foreign intelligence services. Daniel further stated that police believe that person was recruited as an agent by a Russian Intelligence officer who worked under diplomatic cover in Sweden. However, the Russian embassy in Sweden has not commented on the security agency’s statement.

Russian President Putin said, “The spying games are not going anywhere. Nobody has shut it down before and nobody can shut it down now either.”

Russia has been repeatedly accused by western countries as being a persuasive player in espionage activities. The tensions between Russia and Europe is already intensifying and these espionage activities just inflame the tension. Since the Ukraine crisis in 2014, Sweden’s security services consider the possibility of Russian military operations against their country following a rise in espionage activities and military presence in Baltic region. Russian military espionage in Sweden included hacking, trying to get hold of secret information or equipment, political influence and trying to recruit agents within the nations.

According to Wilhelm Unge, security police chief analyst, a third of Russian diplomats based in Sweden were believed to be intelligence officers. Espionage against Sweden is a daily occurrence and presence of foreign spies from Russia, China and Iran have been a great concern for national security.

Despite all the fingers pointed to one country, along with public embarrassment and collateral damage, Russia is unlikely to be deterred from carrying out aggressive foreign spying operation. Question is what choices do national security agencies have? The loss of sensitive information can be a significant national security threat to any country. In this case, it is unimaginable what sensitive information was shared with Russian diplomat since 2017. Arresting or identifying few foreign spies won’t eliminate such recurring national security threats. The best approach to take countermeasures against Russia and other countries is to identify what information foreign spy shared, how they obtained that information, how they shared- communication, local handlers of these spies, involvement of foreign diplomats, existence of the chain of foreign spies within the country and strengthen security network.

WHY ICOGNATIVE?

The Director General of Swedish Security Service, Anders Thornberg, stated that due to imminent threat from Russia, it’s very important for national security agencies to follow this lead. The existing conventional investigation and intelligence gathering tool cannot provide necessary intelligence about the Russian spy-web created within the nation or what information suspect shared and how he shared. Identifying and arresting a spy isn’t a scratch unless information gained from the spy can be used to reverse-engineer and identify all the foreign spies in the nation.

Only one technology exists in the security market that is the most suitable tool to answer the call for such a huge national security challenge and further provide information necessary to reverse-engineer and identify the existing spies, handlers and dual identity diplomats in the region. Brainwave Sciencehas introduced the most accurate and much needed technology for this century that empowers national security personnel to determine who is the spy and who is innocent, and it’s called iCognative. This revolutionary technology accomplishes this by matching crime-related information from an infallible witness-the human brain, with over 99% accuracy without any necessity of physical evidence and assurance of zero possibility of error. iCognative can be a game-changing approach for National Securityagencies, especially when illegal intelligence-gathering has become a constant threat.

National Security agencies desperately need a non-intrusive, affordable and efficient technology with nearly perfect accuracy to identify the spy and web-chain before any secret information is stolen or any harm could be done. With the aid of iCognative technology, National Security agencies can, not only identify the spies in their region but also obtain what specific confidential information was shared with Russian Intelligence. This advanced technology provides the key to break this chain of command, identify and locate various foreign espionage agents and strike the most powerful blow. How? National Security agencies can utilize iCognative technology in such complicated cases where limited time and resources are available to reconstruct the security structure. In this case, all the necessary crime-related information could be accessible and verified with almost perfect accuracy once a 45-minutes iCognative test is conducted by Swedish Security Police (SAPO) on arrested Russian spy. Information such as: what specific information was shared with Russia, how he obtained those information, true identity of Russian diplomat in Sweden, identification of other Russian spies, the specific way to communicate to the handler or Russian intelligence, his bank accounts details, location and identification of handler or any other known foreign espionage agents, would be easily available to National Security personnel to investigate this case in the right direction once the test is completed and further provide solid evidence about Russian espionage activities and strengthen their defense for future attacks.

An assigned investigator uploads all the investigative details related to this and previous espionage cases into the iCognative system protocol. The system records and analyzes the brain prints when case related known and confidential information (together called Stimuli) is flashed to the spy on a digital screen in the forms of pictures, phrases or words and determine with over 99% accuracy what information suspect or witness possess and/or trying to conceal from the investigator. Russian spy was active since 2017 and SAPO had been working on the case for “a substantial period of time’ providing enough time for Russian spy to transfer more information in such a crucial situation. With the aid of iCognative, such an error won’t occur where national security personnel need to wait for substantial evidence before they could arrest the spy.

Brainwave Science’siCognative is the only hope for Sweden and other European country to defend themselves from Russian espionage attacks. This technology provides the best and strongest strategy as it supports national security personnel to identify what information spy possess and further support national security personnel to identify the espionage agents within the region. iCognative believes in a peaceful but a powerful way of winning these battles without any bloodshed.